ESSENTIAL SERVICES (AUXILIARY FIRE SERVICE) CORPS REGULATIONS
- CHAPTER 197C

ESSENTIAL SERVICES (AUXILIARY FIRE SERVICE) CORPS REGULATIONS - LONG TITLE  
Empowering section VerDate:30/06/1997



(Cap 197 section 7)
 
[3 November 1950] 
(G.N.A. 242 of 1950)



ESSENTIAL SERVICES (AUXILIARY FIRE SERVICE) CORPS REGULATIONS - REGULATION 1
Citation VerDate:30/06/1997



These regulations may be cited as the Essential Services (Auxiliary Fire 
Service) Corps Regulations, and shall be read as one with the Essential 
Services Corps (General) Regulations (Cap 197 sub. leg.), hereinafter 
referred to as the principal regulations.



ESSENTIAL SERVICES (AUXILIARY FIRE SERVICE) CORPS REGULATIONS - REGULATION 2
Establishment of Auxiliary Fire Service Unit VerDate:30/06/1997



There is hereby established as a unit of the Corps an Auxiliary Fire 
Service Unit and the Director of Fire Services shall be the Unit 
Controller thereof.



ESSENTIAL SERVICES (AUXILIARY FIRE SERVICE) CORPS REGULATIONS - REGULATION 3
Modification of principal regulations VerDate:30/06/1997



The principal regulations shall apply to the Auxiliary Fire Service Unit 
with the following modifications-

        (a)	members of the Auxiliary Fire Service Unit shall when called 
out for active service or under training be deemed to be for all the 
purposes of section 10 of the Fire Services Ordinance (Cap 95) members of 
the Fire Services Department;  (L.N. 50 of 1967)

        (b)	any member of the Auxiliary Fire Service Unit who is authorized 
by the Unit Controller to take charge of the Unit on the occasion of a 
fire shall have all the powers conferred on the Director of Fire Services 
under section 10 of the Fire Services Ordinance (Cap 95);

        (c)	"training" (訓練) includes training in extinguishing fires and in 
protecting life and property during and after a fire, whether given on the 
occasion of a fire or otherwise;  (L.N. 50 of 1967) 

        (d)	the powers and duties vested in and to be discharged by the 
Commissioner under the principal regulations shall so far as concerns the 
Auxiliary Fire Service Unit be exercised and discharged by the Unit 
Controller:
Provided that for the purpose of giving effect to this paragraph-

        (i)	regulation 15 of the principal regulations shall be read as if 
the words "on the recommendation of the Commissioner" had been deleted; and

        (ii)	paragraph (1) of regulation 16 of the principal regulations 
shall be read as if the words "on the recommendation of the appropriate 
Unit or Sub-Unit Controller" had been deleted.
"training" (訓練)


ESSENTIAL SERVICES (AUXILIARY FIRE SERVICE) CORPS REGULATIONS - REGULATION 4
Limited call out by Director of Fire Services VerDate:30/06/1997



For the purpose of assisting the Fire Services Department, the Director of 
Fire Services may, on the occasion of a fire or other calamity, by 
departmental order call out the Auxiliary Fire Service Unit or any part or 
member thereof for active service, and such service shall continue for the 
period specified in that order unless a further departmental order is made 
by the Director of Fire Services cancelling the first-mentioned order.
(L.N. 50 of 1967)